Photos Vietnam

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If it works well I will share more photos and their descriptions.

 

[Mr. H.]

One image is severely cropped. Sort of slow loading.
But hey it's the thought that counts.

 

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[Mr. H.]

Now you're rollin'.

 

[Mr. H.]

My fave so far...

 

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gotta be a better way

 

[Mr. H.]

I've seen a lot of photo essays over the years but these are new to me.
Where you finding this stuff?

 

[The Professor]

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I know I will have a difficult time getting that young man's face out of my mind. They story of the war is written in his eyes.

 

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[Bfgrn]

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I know I will have a difficult time getting that young man's face out of my mind. They story of the war is written in his eyes.

Great observation. It reminds me of a great article I read the other day.

America, You Must Not Look Away

Excerpt:

In March, 1968, U.S. soldiers massacred 500 civilians at My Lai in Vietnam. A year and a half later, the world finally saw the photographs – of mounds of dead peasants covered in blood, a terrified toddler seconds before he was gunned down, and a woman with her brains literally blown out of her head. (These photos would join other Vietnam War photos, including a naked girl burned by napalm running down the road, and a South Vietnamese general walking up to a handcuffed suspect, taking out his handgun, and blowing the guy's brains out on the NBC Nightly News.)

With this avalanche of horrid images, the American public turned against the Vietnam War. Our realization of what we were capable of rattled us so deeply it became very hard for future presidents (until George W. Bush) to outright invade a sovereign nation and go to war there for a decade.

Bush was able to pull it off because his handlers, Misters Cheney and Rumsfeld, knew that the most important thing to do from the get-go was to control the images of the war, to guarantee that nothing like a My Lai-style photograph ever appeared in the U.S. press.

 

[Bfgrn]

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
John F. Kennedy